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With tens of thousands of subscribers and millions of viewers and listeners across the nation and around the globe, the Heifetz Institute sets the industry standard for high-quality audio and video productions of music performance, both in the concert hall and in the virtual realm.

From the Shenandoah to the World…

From short-form Instagram Takeovers to full-length livestreamed concerts – as well as music videos, concert showpieces, chamber-works, interviews, and features, Heifetz productions featuring performances and commentary by our top-flight students, faculty and alumni are available year-round in the archives below. Check out our content across all social channels and in collaborations with The Violin Channel, Performance Today, and Virginia public-media outlets WMRA, WVTF, and VPM.

Video of the Week

Video of the Week: A Stranger in Chopin’s Cello Sonata

Composed in 1827, the year before Franz Schubert died at the age of just 31, Winterreise is made up of 24 songs, written to texts by Wilhelm Müller. Its story, told in fragments and references rather than structured narrative, is seen through the eyes of a heartbroken...

Video of the Week: The Clock Stops for CPE Bach

In his lifetime, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, the eldest of Johann Sebastian Bach’s composing sons, was far more famous, prosperous, and influential than his illustrious father.

Video Of The Week: Manuel Quiroga – The Forgotten Spanish Virtuoso

The story behind the last of the six Op. 27 solo violin sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe, dedicated to the Spanish violinist Manuel Quiroga.

Video of the Week: Variations On The Theme of Love

“One cannot easily overlook the indelible love story that Messiaen shared with Claire. And all musicians — violinists in particular — are indebted…

Video of the Week: Strum

The Borromeo String Quartet performs Jessie Montgomery’s “Strum” at the Heifetz Institute—”a piece that pulsates with pure energy and salutes American folk idioms and the spirit of dance and movement.”

Video of the Week: All Hail Hailstork!

“Hailstork pulls out all the stops here, literally (in the playing of the strings) and figuratively, turning the simple tune into something quite complex. In his very brief comments on this piece, Hailstork writes that the theme is “interrupted by abrupt dissonant...

The 2022 Heifetz Memory Book

The year in images from the Heifetz Institute 2022, a year that saw the resumption of our new Ensemble in Residence Program and our 6-week summer program

The Heifetz Holiday Homecoming 2022

Our year-end “Heifetz Holiday Homecoming,” featuring Minchae Kim, SoHyun Ko violins; Jerome McCoy, viola, and Dilshod Narzillaev, cello and faculty pianist Allison Freeman

Video of the Week: A Picture Painted Without a Model

Violist Joseph Skerik and faculty pianist Tae Kim perform Eugène Ysaÿe’s passionate Extase, Op. 21 in concert at the Heifetz Institute’s 2022 Festival of Concerts

Video of the Week: Vivaldi’s Take on a Tune for the Ages

Dating from the 1600s, La Folia, translated as “folly,” or “madness,” is one of the most durable and downright maddening tunes in all of Western music.

Chock Full o’ Bach – Your Weekly Bach Break

Intensive study and performance of Bach’s music has always occupied a central role in the lives of our Heifetz students. Join us every Sunday morning at 9am on our website, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram channels, or catch up on the archives below as we continue to share this timeless music.

The Beethoven Experience

A landmark musical and educational adventure with the Borromeo Quartet marking the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, built around an exploration of all sixteen of his string quartets investigating the intersection between Beethoven and the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of his time….and ours!

Rubato: The Virtual Concert Hall

Full length concerts from our Virtual 2020 season, featuring brand-new student and alumni performances produced through a sophisticated collaborative multi-track recording process developed by our production and artistic staff.

Celebrity Series

Concert performances spanning the years from the archives featuring the outstanding faculty of the Heifetz International Music Institute, including some of the biggest names in the concert music world, with occasional guest student performances.